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ninaschuyler.bsky.social

@ninaschuyler.bsky.social

Author: OPEN THE FLOODGATES, IN THIS RAVISHING WORLD, AFTERWORD, HOW TO WRITE STUNNING SENTENCES; Lover of lemons, dogs, snails. Instructor: Stanford Continuing Studies website: ninaschuyler.com Stunning Sentences: ninaschuyler.substack.com

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John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 4d ago

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

"The Publisher may not use artificial intelligence in any manner in relation to this Work, including to reproduce, translate, narrate and/or produce art for the Work without the Proprietor’s express permission, nor does the Publisher have the right to sublicense others to use artificial intelligence in any manner to reproduce, translate, narrate, and/or produce art for the Work without the Proprietor’s express permission. Furthermore, the Publisher will not use cover or interior artwork generated by artificial intelligence. "In addition, the Proprietor expressly prohibits the Publisher from using the Work in any manner for purposes of training artificial intelligence technologies to generate text, including without limitation, technologies that are capable of generating works in the same style or genre as the Work. The Proprietor reserves all rights to license uses of the Work for generative artificial intelligence training and development of machine learning language models. The Publisher will use best efforts to include a limitation in any sublicense of the Work prohibiting the use of the Work for training and developing generative artificial intelligence technologies."
ninaschuyler.bsky.social@ninaschuyler.bsky.social · 5d ago

Thank you @sfchronicle.com for publishing my opinion piece about the legal theory of personhood. It's a profound reframing of property, giving personhood to mountains, forests, trees, yet there's more work to be done.

David Knowles@writerknowles.bsky.social · last wk.

In today's @sfchronicle.com, author @ninaschuyler.bsky.social reflects on the push to bestow natural entities with person hood status. Fascinating piece. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

ninaschuyler.bsky.social@ninaschuyler.bsky.social · 4w ago

Such a pleasure talking to @janeciab.bsky.social about my new novel OPEN THE FLOODGATES! Her questions opened up wide vistas of previously unknown territory. "If I’d listened to a lot of the rules stuffed in my brain, I wouldn’t have done any of it." lithub.com/nina-schuyle...

Nina Schuyler on Personifying a River in Craft and Creative Voice

Nina Schuyler, the award-winning climate fiction author, grew up surrounded by bodies of water in Washington State. She spent most of her summers as a girl in or on Gravelly Lake, which was carved …

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ninaschuyler.bsky.social@ninaschuyler.bsky.social · 4w ago

Christine Sneed's brilliant questions about my new novel, OPEN THE FLOODGATES, about the River who is granted personhood and has the right--and urgent need--to argue in court for its existence. www.thenationalbookreview.com/features/202...

Q&A: What Rights Does a River Have? — The National Book Review

Few contemporary novelists are as fresh and imaginative in their examination and dramatization of profound moral questions as Nina Schuyler is. In her new novel, Open the Floodgates (Reverberations B...

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ninaschuyler.bsky.social@ninaschuyler.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thank you, @swethaamit.bsky.social, for these fabulous questions! You helped me articulate (I hope) the vision for this book and the experience of writing it! Q: How did you manage to break the rules? jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/a...

A River Runs Through it: A Conversation with Nina Schuyler by Swetha Amit

Even if you’re someone who doesn’t “believe in climate change,” you know the weather has changed—it’s hotter; there’s less water, droughts, wildfires, floods, the ocean is warming, rising. Farmers …

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ninaschuyler.bsky.social@ninaschuyler.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thrilled to receive this great review of OPEN THE FLOODGATES from Your Impossible Voice! "Original, compelling, and lyrical, Open the Floodgates provides the perfect balance between confronting the horrors of human-led environmental change and hope." yourimpossiblevoice.com/review-open-...

Review: Open the Floodgates by Nina Schuyler | Your Impossible Voice

Review by Kelsey Squire — Inspired by recent court cases in New Zealand, Ecuador, and India that affirmed personhood rights on bodies of water, Open the Floodgates imaginatively explores the implicati...

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